From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 29 May 93 05:15:43 GMT From: world!srctran@decwrl.dec.com (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: OOPSLA data shows that Ada9X has no chance Message-ID: List-Id: I just finished reviewing seven years (1986-1992) of papers from OOPSLA conferences. Here's the language count: Smalltalk 77 C/C++ 48 Lisp/Scheme 24 Ada 5 Once again, the Ada community has failed in its responsibility to foster Ada use whereever possible. No wonder that Smalltalk, a language with no federal backing or academic teaching use, now has as much market share in the non-Mandated world as Ada. Its advocates, companies like Xerox, ParcPlace and IBM go to OOPSLA and push their uses of the language. And even more interesting, of these papers, 24 of the C/C++ or Smalltalk efforts were funded by DARPA, ONR, AFOSR, ARMY RES. INST., CECOM or AIR FORCE ESD, while DARPA funded only one Ada paper. What message does this send to the non-Mandated world? That the leading DoD research funding agencies believe that C/C++ and Smalltalk are the wave of the future for object oriented programming. Couple these statistics with the ongoing boycotts of the Object World conferences by the Ada community, and the result, Christine Anderson, unlike your comments at the STSC conference, is that few in the OO world give any thought to Ada, including those in the OO world who are in the Mandated world. Ada9X will be offering too little too late by those with two feet in two camps who should be wearing tutu's. Too bad, too sad, tutaloo !!!! Greg Aharonian -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimization P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178